apartment
/əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
UK: /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
ƏPⱭɹT · mənt (2 syllables)
English
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Definition
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Example Sentences
- "apartment dwellers"
- "I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2."
- "By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them."
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